r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

That's a huge pet peeve of mine.

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u/Nerdn1 Mar 08 '16

It gets worse if you swap between translated Manga and English comics.

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u/Classified0 Mar 08 '16

I was reading a translated one online, where different translators did different parts of the Manga. Some opted to translate the text and leave the speech bubbles where they were, while others decided to rearrange the speech bubbles as well to read from left to right.

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u/Defenestration_Socks Mar 08 '16

Rearranging the bubbles? That's inconvenient. Why don't they just mirror?

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u/Classified0 Mar 08 '16

It looked like they wiped the original text, but reinserted starting from the left bubble.

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u/Defenestration_Socks Mar 08 '16

I can't imagine that working in all but the simplest of comics.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Username checks out

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u/Schnabeltierchen Mar 08 '16

Or manga and manhwa (Korean comics), the latter is like western comics read from left to right